The West African construction market is growing at rapid pace, with Nigeria leading the transition from mixing and casting concrete on site to the more efficient precast technology. While precast construction is definitively growing in the region with increasing importance due to the rapid urbanization and the need for fast infrastructure enhancements (Fig. 1), there are still a variety of challenges, which have been discussed in the first part of this article (CPI, issue 6, 2023). Despite the challenges the rapid growth of the business offers many degrees of freedom to implement innovative and greener technologies, and, thus, to pioneer sustainable construction for a growing urban population.
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Wolfram Schmidt, Bundesanstalt für Materialprüfung und -forschung (BAM), Berlin, Germany Kolawole Adisa Olonade, University of Lagos, Nigeria Akosua Nyansaland Akuffo-Ensaw, CAK Construction, Ghana Angela Tetteh Tawiah, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany / Università degli studi di Padova, Italy Bright Asante, Bundesanstalt für Materialprüfung und -forschung (BAM), Berlin, Germany Samuel Anim Ofosu, Koforidua Technical University, Ghana Alexander Fordjour, Koforidua Technical University, Ghana